WEBVTT WITH KEVIN COONEY, STACEY HORST, CHIEF METEOROLOGIST JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, AND IOWA'S SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR ANDY GARMAN. ALL HAPPY, SMILING. STACEY: WHO WOULDN'T WANT ICE CREAM WHEN YOU SEE THIS? IT IS 20 FEET TALL. KEVIN: KCCI'S TODD MAGEL TRAVELED TO THE NORTH OF DES MOINES TO SEE IT IN PERSON. MARK: CHECK OUT ACKLEY'S NEWEST TOURIST ATTRACTION. ONE MANS DREAM, NOW A GIANT VANILLA, REALITY. JEFF KURTH HAS OPERATED HIS FAMILY FIBERGLASS BUSINESS FOR DECADES. BUT ONE DAY DRIVING AROUND WITH HIS HUNGRY KIDS HE HAD TROUBLE FINDING AN ICE CREAM SHOP. AN IDEA WAS BORN. 4 YEARS LATER, THIS IS IT . WELL I LOOKED ONLINE AND I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING LIKE IT , SO I GUESS SELF PROCLAIMED LARGEST ICE CREAM IN THE WORLD WE'RE GOING WITH. MARK: HIS WIFE JANET HELPED BUILD THE 500 POUND CREATION. JEFF HAS AN AMAZING MIND AND WHAT EVER HE PUTS IN HIS MIND IT TURNS OUT HUGE. MARK: WITHOUT ANY FORMAL PLANS, THE COUPLE EXPERIMENTED WITH SHAPES AND MATERIALS EVENTUALLY , MAKING CUSTOM MOLDS TO FORM THE BASE, CONE, AND ICE CREAM TOP. WE CAN TAKE THAT ONE ALL THE WAY OUT. MARK: HE PLANS TO INSTALL AN ICE CREAM MACHINE AND USE IT AT TOURIST EVENTS LIKE THE IOWA STATE FAIR AND RAGBRAI. WHAT LITTLE KID WALKING BUY OR RIDING THEIR BIKE OR ON THEIR SKATEBOARD WOULDN'T WANT AN ICE CREAM CONE WHEN THEY SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS? MARK: THE GIANT CONE IS SET TO